Very nice ending. Not really a "happily ever after" but then, it's not that kind of story.
OK. This is maybe a dumb question after all that, but what happened to the blank-faced man servant? You made specific mention, as I recall, of Ana being dead, but this guy was sort of omnipresent and then he was just gone. Was he not real?
(Or am I just not remembering the part where he was killed, maybe?)
I dunno why this strikes me as important... I think it's because, you know. Beta said at one point, "He's mine. I made him." And now she's staying. So, like. Is she ALLLL alone, or is he (and others?) still around?
And I don't know if you intended to leave the story open at the end like that with the creepy "you're mine forever" so that it could potentially (you know, in one of those "if the movie kept going" kind of things) tie out to the story of Elizabeth Bathory if the viewer knew that story? But it's a nice touch. If that WASN'T your intention, I'd call it a a happy accident.
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Date: 2011-01-18 05:11 pm (UTC)OK. This is maybe a dumb question after all that, but what happened to the blank-faced man servant? You made specific mention, as I recall, of Ana being dead, but this guy was sort of omnipresent and then he was just gone. Was he not real?
(Or am I just not remembering the part where he was killed, maybe?)
I dunno why this strikes me as important... I think it's because, you know. Beta said at one point, "He's mine. I made him." And now she's staying. So, like. Is she ALLLL alone, or is he (and others?) still around?
And I don't know if you intended to leave the story open at the end like that with the creepy "you're mine forever" so that it could potentially (you know, in one of those "if the movie kept going" kind of things) tie out to the story of Elizabeth Bathory if the viewer knew that story? But it's a nice touch. If that WASN'T your intention, I'd call it a a happy accident.